Where to put images with SvelteKit - image

Question

I have been using Svelte for a little while and now I have switched to SvelteKit so I can add multiple pages. I want to add some images to my site but I don't know where to put them. In Svelte I would just put them in public/images but there is no public folder with SvelteKit (I set it up with npm init svelte#next my-app if that matters). Would I put them in static?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I added the images in static/images and referenced them with src="/images/photo.jpg" like #b2m9 said and it works perfectly.

Answer 2

I recommend putting images under src/lib, not static. For example you could make a src/lib/images or src/lib/assets folder and put them there.
The reason is performance:
For files imported from anywhere under src, at compile time Vite adds a hash to the filename. myImage.png might end up as myImage-a89cfcb3.png. The hash is based on the image contents. So if you change the image, it gets a new hash. This enables the server to send a very long cache expiration to the browser, so the browser can cache it forever or until it changes. It's key-based cache expiration, which IMO is the best kind: cached exactly as long as it needs to be. (Whether the server actually sends the right caching headers in the response may depend on which SvelteKit adapter you use and what host you're on.)
By contrast, images under static don't have a hash added to their name. You can use the static directory for things like robots.txt that need to have a specific filename. Since the filename stays unchanged even if its contents change these files by necessity end up having a cache-control value that includes max-age=0, must-revalidate and an etag, which means even if the browser caches the image it still has to make a server round-trip to validate that the cached image is correct. This slows down every image on your site.
Usage:
When putting images under src/lib, you reference them like this:
<script>
import img from '$lib/images/img.png';
</script>
<img src={img} alt="Image" />
I recommend simplifying by adding svelte-preprocess-import-assets to your project, which automates the process of importing images and cleans up your code. You wrote the following and it generates the code above:
<img src="$lib/images/img.png" alt="Image" />

Answer 3

As Sveltekit uses Vitejs, there is a easy solution mentioned in Vitejs official web site (Click Here).
First inside the script tag :
<script>
const imgUrl = new URL('./img.png', import.meta.url).href
</script>
then inside your Image tag just use that variable,
<img src="{imgUrl}" alt="" />
or,
<div class=" h-screen w-full" style="background-image: url('{bgUrl}') ;">
</div>
You can import static images from any relative path.

Answer 4

there is also svelte-image.
"Svelte image is a pre-processor which automates image optimization using sharp.
It parses your img tags, optimizes or inlines them and replaces src accordingly. (External images are not optimized.)
Image component enables lazyloading and serving multiple sizes via srcset.
This package is heavily inspired by gatsby image.
Kudos to #jkdoshi for great video tutorial to Svelte Image."
-https://github.com/matyunya/svelte-image